Archive for November, 2008

Ingredients:

1 litre Milk

1 tbsp roasted sooji (rava) (semolina)

200 gms finely chopped dates (coarsely ground in a mixie)

Thick coconut milk

Sugar to taste.

A few cashewnuts chopped coarsely

Method:.

Boil the milk with the roasted sooji till it turns thick.Add coconut milk & sugar and cook on low flame . Remove from the flame. Add the cashews and the dates and mix well. Cool in the refrigerator and serve chilled.

NOTE: Do not cook once you add the dates.

Ingredients:

1 kg Fish cut in cubes and deep fried , drained and kept aside

200 gms salt

3 tbsp coriander pwd

1 1/2 tsp cumin (jeera)

1tbsp mustard

1 tsp fenugreek (methi)

3 tbsp poppyseed (KhusKhus)- soaked overnite & ground overnight to make a paste

8 big pods of garlic ( 4 peeled and ground and the other 4 just peeled)

100 gms ginger

100 gms green chillies slit lengthwise

2 cups vinegar

1 tsp sugar

1/4 kg red chillie pwd- soaked overnite in salt solution.

Method:

Make a solution of salt water. Strain and keep aside. Deep fried Fish should also be drained of the oil and kept aside. Fry the peeled garlic and ginger pieces in a little oil and keep that aside as well. Grind all the ingredients together except for khus khus and chilli powder paste and slit green chillies.

In a little oil, put mustard seeds, when it splutters add the chilli paste, fry on low flame for 2 minutes.Add the ground masala ,the salt solution and vinegar and allow it to boil for 2-3 minutes. To this add the sugar and the khus khus paste. Cook for another 5 minutes.Add the dep fried fish pieces and the fried garlic and ginger pieces as well as the slit green chillies. Mix this well and keep it overnite covered by a dry cloth tied around the mouth of the vessel. Next morning open the cloth and check for the spices and seasoning, add if it is required and bottle it . You can add a little oil once it is bottled on the top to preserve it a little longer.